ST Project Ideas

Toshiba/NSTA Exploravision Project: "Now in its 16th year, ExploraVision encourages K-12 students of all interest, skill and ability levels to create and explore a vision of future technology by combining their imaginations with the tools of science. All inventions and innovations result from creative thinking and problem solving."

K-12 Students: Tell us why Science is Cool!
Enter now for the USA Science & Engineering Festival Kavli Science Video Contest!
Have your video screened on the National Mall, win prize money and possibly even a trip to the Expo in Washington D.C.!

The No Boundaries national contest gives students the chance to learn about the limitless opportunities at NASA. Explore careers in science, technology, engineering and math and win prizes that are out of this world.

The objective of the Contest is for students and an adult teacher/advisor/mentor ("Teams") to create the "dashboard of the future" that incorporates feedback mechanisms and supports behavior change to help drivers maximize fuel efficiency and reduce environmental impact. The contest is designed to challenge students to work together using creativity, design, and math and science skills to develop new gauges, instruments and interfaces for the dashboard of the future that promotes eco-driving behaviors. Teams will design the dashboard, describe its functions in a technical plan, and create a pitch video to promote their concepts. Additional information and tips for creating an effective contest entry will be available online at the Contest website, found at www.FuelOurFutureNow.com/contest

The DuPont Challenge © offers students the opportunity to write a 700 to 1,000-word essay discussing a scientific discovery, theory, event, or technological application that has captured their interest. We are confident your student writers will, like astronauts crossing the universe, move to the edge of science where the spirit of exploration and discovery reside.

The Christopher Columbus Awards (6-8) is a national, community-based science and technology program for middle school students. The program challenges the students to work in teams of three to four, with an adult coach, to identify a problem in their community and apply the scientific method to create an innovative solution to that problem.

The 2010 Digital Media and Learning Competition challenges designers, entrepreneurs, practitioners, researchers, and young people to put participatory learning to work on behalf of science, technology, engineering, math and their social contexts in the 21st century.

Engineer Your Life: A guide to Engineering for HS Girls

DIY NASA Podcast

Science Fair:
Energy Related Ideas: On this site "are listed a number of science and energy activities for students, K-12. Each of them have a short description on this page and then a link to the actual activity."

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams is a national grants initiative to foster inventiveness among high school students. InvenTeams composed of high school students, teachers and mentors are asked to collaboratively identify a problem that they want to solve, research the problem, and then develop a prototype invention as an in-class or extracurricular project.

NSTA/Conrad Awards The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards challenge teams of High School Students to:

• CREATE AN ENTREPRENEURIAL ENTERPRISE FOR LUNAR EXPLORATION.
• CREATE AN INNOVATIVE PRODUCT FOR USE IN PERSONAL SPACEFLIGHT.
• CREATE A CLEAN, CARBON-FREE WAY OF USING RENEWABLE ENERGY TO CHANGE EVERYDAY LIFE.

http://www.pacomputerfair.org/generalinfo.html

Wired Science Video Project:

• Please complete your video and turn it into a .mov or .wmv file, no larger than 200 Mb. (For IMovie, that means Share, Export Video, Large).
• Drag this video file to the Hand-in Robot. (If this process fails, you can copy it to my flashdrive on Monday!)
• Click here to upload your video for the Wired Science Video Contest. (Note: Videos can be submitted until 9pm on Monday 4/1, so if you have problems uploading the video, we can try again on Monday!)

Timelines

DesignSquad: Turn your trash into treasure and be on TV! Recycle, reuse, and re-engineer everyday materials into an out-of-the box invention. For ages 5-19. Enter online from April 5 to September 5, 2010.

Disaster Project

Think Quest
"Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world. Along the way, they learn research, writing, teamwork, and technology skills and compete for exciting prizes."

Siemens We Can Change The World: Designed to equip students in every grade level with the tools and inspiration to develop innovative green solutions for schools, homes and communities, the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge will transform participants into active citizens for a greener tomorrow. The program begins by helping young students understand the basic concepts of sustainability and why it’s important to protect the environment. At each subsequent stage, the concepts expand to engage students beyond their classrooms, into their communities and to the global world.

Let's Get Real™ is an academic competition and an opportunity for teams of students to gain experience working on real business challenges. Corporate sponsors supply real challenges for which teams submit solutions in business format. Each team chooses from the list of challenges the one(s) it finds most interesting. Challenges might include areas such as environmental issues, manufacturing, distribution, engineering, software creation, human resources, health and safety, facilities design, public relations, or any other areas deemed important to the corporations involved.

Project-Based Learning Ideas